Tagged: Durham

Forget Girls Gone Wild — Laurie Finstad-Knizhnik is a girl who has gone Wild West. The writer known for the disturbing yet insightful drama Durham County returns to the television screen with Strange Empire, a dark tale set at the Alberta-Montana border in 1869.

There was something that Laurie Hawn, a Conservative MP and a common-sense former air force colonel, said to The Canadian Press the other day that best sums up the current clash between this federal government and the group of people it has always clasped close to its bony bosom and claimed to hold dear — soldiers.

Green party Leader Elizabeth May says her party's strong showing in Monday's three byelections — including almost winning an historic second seat — demonstrate the Greens have truly arrived on the federal political scene.

OTTAWA — The Conservatives held on to two seats late Monday in federal byelections — barely avoiding an embarrassing defeat in the Tory heartland of Calgary and easily retaining another seat in the riding of Durham — while the NDP escaped with a close win in Victoria.

OTTAWA — A month marked by heated social media spats, a two-year-old video and a campaign-sign controversy will end Monday as voters in three federal ridings – one in each of British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario – head to the polls for byelections.